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Behind the Scenes at the Birth of the Movies

Anne Blackstone is a sixteen year old girl from a small town on the banks of the Missouri River at the turn of the twentieth century. Anne is the sworn enemy of the Church Ladies, black-clad members of the Ladies' Aid Society, who run an institution for orphans and homeless children. After the death of her father in a barge explosion, Anne lives with her ailing mother in the town's poorest district, The Meadows.

The Orphan's Revenge

Upon the death of her mother, Anne is sent to the Home for Orphans run by the Church Ladies. With the aid of a waterfront madam, Ann escapes the Home, leaves town with the company of a traveling showboat, and later joins a touring motion picture exhibitor. Along the way, she learns the craft of directing: for the stage, then for the infant industry of moving pictures, pre-Hollywood. She enters the field before it becomes a big business, when motion picture language was being written, and when women, even from a lower class, had access to its creative tools.

With a cast of strong characters, both real and imaginary, Downriver gives readers the experience of what it was like to be alive at the origins of an industry which is, today, so much a part of our lives.
About the Author: Evan Anderson has been a writer since being inspired by his Junior High English teacher and the writers Herman Hesse, C.S. Lewis and Ray Bradbury, who he had the privilege of meeting on several occasions. In his hometown of Los Angeles he was the editor of Spectrum magazine, and a member of the Artists Repertory Theater in West Hollywood. After moving to upstate New York he helped initiate the Glaring Omissions, a writer's group that continues to this day.
Evan was one of four New York writers to read at the Festival of the Coffeehouse Poets in Ontario. In 2002 he was selected as one of 23 Hudson Valley authors for inclusion in the short fiction collection, Prima Materia. He also wrote special material for children's theater, and scripts for The Adventures of Marjorie, an homage to radio series of the 1940's. Downriver is his first novel.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781543972672
  • Publisher: Bookbaby
  • Publisher Imprint: Bookbaby
  • Height: 226 mm
  • No of Pages: 344
  • Spine Width: 20 mm
  • Weight: 594 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1543972675
  • Publisher Date: 29 Jul 2019
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: A Tale of Moving Pictures Before Hollywoodvolume 1
  • Width: 152 mm

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